often blushed, and Wang Gu talked about him, prevaricate some words such as all, temperament, smile, voice and so on.
After repeated questions, most people's most common answers are eyes, hair, etc. Many of the answers don't even believe in themselves.
After watching the Japanese animation "The Garden of Words" directed by Makoto Shinkai in 2013, I think the director seems to want to say that even the purest
love has a place for lust. And in lust, like each other's body parts often have fetish features. What
can be a fetish? To put it simply in Freud's words: she (he) has it, I don't. The
theme is
"foot fetish".
This 46-minute animation is a combination of beauty and simplicity. As always, Makoto Shinkai's style is beautiful, the pictures,
composition, music, dialogue, and the simple plot can be outlined in one or two sentences: a 167-year-old high school boy and a
27-year-old high school Chinese female teacher Romance between. The plot basically falls into a cliché, which is simpler than the director's previous work "
Five Centimeters Per Second".
But Makoto Shinkai's strength lies in the creation of the atmosphere: in the drizzle, large swaths of green, lingering with wet love.
The first time the boy saw the female teacher in the pavilion was her slender feet, and the camera showed the close-up of the women's shoes. It just so happens that the young man is not doing his
job , and he likes hand-made shoemaking skills. Finally, in the tranquility of another rain and green weaving, the boy took off his teacher
's women's shoes and measured her. The camera stayed on the women's football for a long time, and looked at it from different angles. This is
the center of the whole film, a quiet climax.
Makoto Shinkai is not Nagisa Oshima, and the film later turned to the theme of pure love and ended with pure love. But I think the main character of this movie
The question is not pure love, but foot fetish. Or it starts with being obsessed with the parts of the female body, but in the end it has to be restrained, and
pure love used as a cover up eroticism. There are not many movies about foot fetish, but a few are classics in film history. The opening scene of Stanley
Kubrick's Lolita is Strange Millet smearing Lolita's nail polish. The two or three-minute scene is, in my opinion
, one of the least erotic but one of the most erotic scenes in film history. In French director Rohmer's "Claire's Knee"
, the protagonist's fascination is actually a woman's knee. In comparison, Makoto Shinkai's Japanese style is naturally more introverted,
showing the oriental aesthetic characteristics and the way of balancing pure love and lust.
When your girlfriend in love asks you tenderly what part of my body do you like the most, are you ready to answer
? After watching Makoto Shinkai's film, I feel that if I have the opportunity, I still don't know how to answer.
Rating: 7/10
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